Aviation seems to be quite a popular inspiration among the magazine editorials this season, thanks to all the leather, jumpers and of course Hermes.
New Pull&Bear collection campaign was inspired by Second Word War and Aviation
The latest, “7e Ciel” from French Numéro photographed by Luciana Val and Franco Musso
Peter Lindberg for BAZAAR US July 2009.
We love Bambi too! Stella McCartney latest campaign is one of our favourite so far. Shot by Ryan McGinley, it features Sigrid Agren, the French model on the rise as well as the Walt Disney cartoon characters from Bambi alongside the real versions. Treasures from the woods. Enjoy.
This season many designers use the ‘trompe l’oeil’ effect t. With a plethora of options for every taste, from which we can find perfume bottle dresses, concrete-faceted jackets, prints with zippers, studs, and tears, 3D drapings, and even shoes with toes. Ersatz items more real than what you find in nature, sure to bring humor and cheer up the collections of this winter.
Borba Margo is derived from the combined names and efforts of Anderson Borba and Jessika Margo Goransson. And while, like any collaboration, their work represents a meeting ground of two individuated aesthetics and backgrounds, the synthesis is anything but a compromise.
Their design approach is highly intellectual, with a tendency toward the avant-garde. They often play with proportion and utility in surprising and surreal ways, as to subvert with the surety of our expectations, while suggesting new ways of approaching objects. This could be anything from a handbag with a giant safety pin handle, a belt with an excess of buckles, or a bag that zips up into a square.
And while Borba Margo’s creations always confound the general banality of women’s accessories, they do so with a skill and maturity that makes them highly covetable designer items. The result of their material explorations always yields accessories that are supremely sleek, bold, sexy, and original.
more on www.borbamargo.com or Valerydemure.com
Charlotte Gainsbourg will be the face of the upcoming Balenciaga perfume, to be launched in February 2010. Not surprising as she is the muse to Nicolas Ghesquiere the designer of the Parisian house.
The French actress, and daughter of cult singer Serge Gainsbourg, already posed for the brand for its Fall/Winter 2008 campaign.
‘Françaises au Top’ photo by Victor Demarchelier.
From left— Melodie Dagault, Constance Jablonski, Charlotte de Calypso, Sigrid Agren, Jennifer Messelier and Mathilde Frachon. they just miss Heloise Guerin.
The photographer Victor Demarchelier, who first burst onto the scene as Caroline Trentini’s boyfriend after putting in some time assisting his father Patrick, is starting to book some photography work for the big dogs — though it should be said that the clients work often with his father.
In the April 2009 issue of Vogue, he collaborated with Patrick on an editorial, and in the August 2009 issue of Vogue Paris, he scores his first solo two-page shot, highlighting the rising set of French models.
Edward Steichen, Actress Gloria Swanson, 1924; Vanity Fair February 1928;
To celebrate its 25th year as a relaunched magazine – and 95th anniversary as an American publication – Vanity Fair has published an award-winning book and exhibition called Vanity Fair The Portraits, showcasing photography by masters of the image from Steichen to Leibovitz and including works by previous Arles participants, from Weston to Goldin.
At an evening projection, David Friend, Vanity Fair’s editor of creative development, and Susan White, the magazine’s photography director, will discuss the magazine’s storied legacy in photographic portraiture from the Jazz Age (which included innovators such as De Meyer, Man Ray and Beaton) to the 21st century, discussing the European roots of the publication and its continued dedication to treating photographers as visual artists and auteurs.
“Forget me not” is a series of Art mode digital prints on scarves and turban, all 100% silk. As an extension of the coco’s work as an illustrator, all designs are based exclusively on personal compositions and all elements have been hand-drawn by her. Coco was commissionned for magazines such as Vogue, Nylon, ELLE, and Muse as well as a number of corporate clients: K Karl Lagerfeld, Evian Cosmetics and Addition Adelaide in Japan. It was this rapid success that convinced Coco to set up Forget Me Not, a line of exquisitely hand-rendered, digitally printed scarves. It is a small collection, always of three original design themes in two separate colour waves, which encapsulates the essence of feminine beauty, balancing ethereal imaginary worlds and delicate penmanship against strong geographic patterns and a rich palate of colours.
The collection is available in a selection of Luxury Stores around the world : Barneys (USA), Boon the shop (Korea), Cochinechine (London) Colette (Paris), Club designer (Taiwan), Fenwick ( London ), Jean Brown ( Australia ), Lane Crawford ( Hong kong ) Storm (Copenhagen), Tea Rose ( Italy ) and More
more on Forget-me-not.me
Buy them online at Colette.fr
Taku Satoh Design Office made these beautiful campaigns for PleatsPlease . In fashion industry, in the late 80′s, Issey Miyake is at the birth of a new technique of pleating garments to make them more flexible. A dedicated brand called Pleats Please were created.
